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WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
Aziraphale:
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--- Quote from: Gareth on 12 Feb 2015, 08:35 ---I'm agnostic at worst and atheists in day to day life (heavy emphasis) make me angrier than religious folks
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I am an atheist, and I still find a lot of atheists incredibly annoying. Thankfully not many of the people that I have to interact with much personally, but the kind of misogynistic brotheists who seem to love to make youtube videos are pretty much the worst. Don't even get me started on the so-called "New Atheists."
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I don't mind standard-issue atheists (full disclosure, I'm an agnostic myself). It's the fundamentalist atheists (Dawkins, Hitchens, et al) that drive me batty... though that isn't really limited to atheists. I have a hard time with fundamentalism regardless of who it comes from.
dexeron:
I'll second (3rd? 4th?) the annoyance with atheists (especially the New Atheists,) and I say that as an atheist myself. I'm not annoyed at their "fundamentalism" (I'm not sure what's meant by that) but by the fact that they're so often tone-deaf to real issues of inequality and suffering (case in point, Dawkins constantly putting his foot in his mouth re: feminism.)
Atheists who've embraced humanism and feminism, on the other hand, I tend to get along with great. :)
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So this isn't totally off-topic: I'm glad to see that Faye at least recognized that she snapped at Claire there, and apologized. Part of me wonders if she's going to be a little hyper-aware of these things going forward as some kind of overcompensation to her previous abrasiveness. While trying to be a better friend is laudable, I also kind of worry that it's not healthy if she were to become too self-critical, because I think there are underlying self-esteem issues, and being a better person doesn't always mean treating yourself like a worm.
(Which is why I'm glad she has such supportive friends!)
bhtooefr:
Yeah, Dawkins is an asshole even when he is right, and he's often wrong.
And thankfully certain former members aren't here to start flamewars over the whole atheism vs. agnosticism argument. Personally, I'd describe myself as agnostic, or in the terminology that was decided in that argument, agnostic atheist. I wouldn't be surprised if there is something over us, but I also wouldn't be surprised if there was, and we haven't seen conclusive evidence that there is something over us (and the attempts at "conclusive" evidence have been debunked). Therefore, functionally, I'm an atheist, but if I see plausible evidence that contradicts that, I will cease to be one.
Contrast with people like Dawkins, for whom atheism is a religion - they'd be atheist in a D&D universe where there's conclusive evidence of multiple gods, for instance.
Is it cold in here?:
Is there enough interest to justify starting a thread in Discuss about alcoholism treatment?
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: explicit on 12 Feb 2015, 01:58 ---And no Omega, you can't eat your higher power! Unless it's big enough to last for a really long time. And you have enough for everyone. Did you bring enough for the rest of the class?
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But there's plenty of potato chips for everyone!
... they just have to buy their own :-D
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